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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:54:56 +0200
From: Thomas Anders <anders@hmi.de>
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Germany
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Subject: Re: [Bug 704] spamd doesn't remove pid file on shutdown when running as non-root user
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bugzilla-daemon@hughes-family.org wrote:
> http://www.hughes-family.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=704
> ok, this is now fixed. cheers!

How did you fix it? By creating the pidfile as the "-u" user?
If so, you should add this to the documentation since it prevents
the use of the standard /var/run directory (which is only writable
by root).


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders <anders@hmi.de>
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